Alaska, Florida, Nevada, South Dakota, Texas, Washington,.Wyoming don’t have state income taxes.(Tennessee & New Hampshire to some degree) Alaska, Florida, Texas, New Hampshire and Washington state are all on the coast.
It is a little confusing as the taxes these states all have ways of generating revenue with taxes. Generally they have higher sales taxes. But, If you re an expat in another country
you won’t be buying anything there.(in your domicile state) Just enjoying not paying income tax. Again some states do tax investment earnings but not on your earned income. So you have to shop the states to see which one offers the best benefit for your situation.
As an expat you will be required to stay outside the USA 11 months of the year…having
the 1 month of time to come in (in any number of days) for business, family, personal/medical needs etc.
Still, if you are going to be living on the blue water most of the year anyway…why pay a bunch of taxes when you aren’t there to enjoy the benefits of them.
This is all legal, you only have to setup with a Lawyer/Accountant who specializes in this
practice.
Websites like “American Citizens Abroad” and “Escape Artist” are with message boards,
and news letters for those interested.
I’ve spoken with some who cook on Oil Rigs who live in parts of Mexico, Costa Rica, & Panama. They travel from there to Texas or Florida for a day or two before going out to live/work on the rig. (like 4 months on and 2 months off and making some pretty good money)
The last 10 years I sailed, the 370s was standard issue. I’ve seen 2 die for no apparent reason. Microprocessor possibly. I have 2 that I’ve had for over 10 years that were pieced together from discards. I have the local 2 meter repeaters programed in along with a few simplex freqs. Also a few business band and game warden channels.
There were several marine radios that were programable to ham radio freqs. The first I remember were a couple of ITT Makay radios. Some of the Harris radios were easily programmed but only for USB with the ones we were issued. The SEA 330s were very good. Keyboard entry, USB, LSB and digital modes. 300 watts above 4 MHz and 150 watts below 4 mhz. The Furuno 1502 was easily opened up with a digital code sequence for direct freq input and USB, LSB and digital modes.
I agree John - and you left one thing out - those BaoFengs and their CCR (Cheep Chinese Radios) cousins are rather famous for emitting a very high level of spurious signals - they are great as a disposable radio for a shore trip or out fishing, but I wouldn’t want to fire one up near serious nav electronics. They’re also not legal for Marine VHF use (no Part 80 certification) with or without a license.
Mine worked great for many years and I had the local repeaters all programmed. One day it just quit receiving.
They are a bit of pain as a ham radio, you cannot program it without a computer.
" There are a fleet of boats sailing the world with marine radios. They are Called Yachts. We all have excellent radios , license to have and use ,plus radio operator licence. We use only Marine Frequencies. My be this can be a chace to get this 2 kinds of sailors together We both love and live on the sea… Captain Majj , SV Zazen
Call Sign 9M X D5 At the moment cruising in the Andaman Sea."
A marine Furuno radio preprogrammed with all marine frequencies was around in the 1980’s. A friend of mine who had been a radio operator told me that there was something in the circuitry that he could alter that made the transmitter fully tuneable to all the ham frequencies. As I recall the receiver side was tuneable without the mode. It was a high quality unit. A lot of yachties went to Sat-C with a cheap laptop, the address closely held as it was not cheap.
AIS shipping details are shown on the APRS map and are being relayed by the British radio amateur and AIS Station River Forth GM7HHB near Edinburgh, Scotland. Most ships are inland waterway ships, the large vessels don’t come here and are to be found to the west next to the North Sea.
I had to go to the bottom of my closet to find my Furuno 1503. When installed on the vessels, they’re only ITU channels for transmit and USB and digital modes. To open them up to direct freq entry and all modes, the parameter codes have to changed. To bring up the menu, turn the radio off, press and hold the channel key and power back up. The list of about 30 four digit codes will be displayed. I can’t find my list of codes to change but I’m sure it’s available on line.
A WebSDR is a Software-Defined Radio receiver connected to the internet, allowing many listeners to listen and remotely tune it simultaneously. SDR technology makes it possible that all listeners tune independently, and thus listen to different signals; this is in contrast to the many classical receivers that are already available via the internet.
A few examples of the many that are available on the internet are mentioned here. You can for instance check how your signal is received in other parts of the world.
These web receivers provide a spectrum overview from about 80 kHz to 30 mHz, great for findings the right conditions. Also a waterfall presentation is available. With the zoom function it is possible to zoom in on certain portions of the band. After observing the spectrum and waterfall at a glance I prefer to tune in with my JRC NRD-545 DSP receiver which is easier to handle and very sensitive.
The NRD-545 DSP receiver can be remotely controlled through the computer’s COM-1 port. All functions are available, including switching the receiver to the ‘on’ and ‘off’ positions.
I’ve used SSB/HF (ICOM IC-M802 with antenna matcher) for comms while sailing yachts across chunks of the Pacific. There were a few cruising nets that were good for general chit-chat, weather info, and safety check-in. The shore-based controller would track everyone and swing the Yagi (hand-crank over his head) for your turn. You could almost feel the boom. Also attached a Pactor-III modem for e-mail and weather updates. It seems much of this is being replaced with satellite internet (such as Iridium GO) losing the social qualities of SSB/HF.
We both love and live on the sea… Captain Majj , SV Zazen
